Water-lifting machine



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Lil-VANCE. WATER LIPTING MACHINE.

Patented May 17, 1898.

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WATER LIFTING MACHINE.

No. 604,242. Patented May 17, 1898.

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ALPHEUS .I. VANCE, OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO.

WATER-L IFTING MACl-HN E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 604,242, dated May 17,1898. Application filed October 28,1896. Serial No. 610,290. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALPHEUS J. VANCE, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Grand Junction, in the county of Mesa and State ofColorado, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements inWater-Lifting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a device for raising water to any height thatmay be desired. The distance to which it may be lifted is limited onlyby the size of the machine which it is desired to construct.

In order that the construction of the machine may be understoodaccurately, the accompanying drawings are added.

Figure l is a front elevation with parts broken away here and there, soas to bring to view the interior construction. Fig. 2 is a frontelevation of the device, involving an extension of the invention tolarger purposes and on a grander scale. The figure is more in the natureof a diagram than a representation of all the details, for these areclearly indicated in Fig. 1, while Fig. 2 shows an additional element inoutline. Fig. 3 is a view similar to that in Fig. 2, only taken at adirection of ninety degrees to the latter. It shows parts not clearlylocated in Fig; 2. For example, A shows definitely that the second andthird sets of troughs are on difierent pendulums from the first set.Some parts indicated fully in Fig. 2 are partially omitted in Fig. 3.For example, the troughs are not represented entirely, but only as totheir ends.

A is a tower or framework. Suspended from the top of the same in apendulum-like manner are troughs B, B, B B and B all substantiallyparallel to each other and all definitely inclined to the horizontalposition when the pendulum is standing vertically. There is anotherseries of troughs O O O O similarly parallel to each other and inclined,but the inclination is in the opposite direc tion. The two series oftroughs are secured together in such a manner that the upper ends of thetroughs B B B B B are at the lower ends of the troughs O O C 0 The sidesof the troughs are broken away to such an extent that there is apassage-way between the upper ends of the troughs B B B B B and thelower ends of the troughs O O 0 0 Further than this the upper ends ofthe troughs O O O O are connected to'the lower ends of the troughs B B BB B and passage-ways are formed at the ends thus connected. Passage-waysin all cases are provided, so that the water may flow from one series oftroughs to the other during operation, as hereinafter set forth. Thetroughs are thus rigidly secured together and in turn are fastened tothe pendulu m,which is lettered D, and formed of rods which extend fromthe troughs upward to the rocking shaft E, whose fulcrum is at F, uponthe cross-beams attached to the frame A.

In practice the machine is so placed that the greater portion and thelower open end of the lowest trough B is immersed in water. Power isapplied to the crank. For example, inasmuch as no steam or water wheelis shown in the drawings, ones hand may be taken as an example of themoving power. The handle is so operated back and forth that the pendulumD swings back and forth, carrying with it the series of troughs. Thefinal result is the passage of water at the upper open end through thenotch G in the farther side of the trough B or whatever trough is thehighest. Lower troughs of course may be tapped to any height. A slightvibration of the pendulum would not be sufficient to accomplish thisresult, for the water would merely run part the way up the trough B andback again. The swinging should take place to such an extent that theupper end of the trough B, considered in the normal condition, shouldbecome the-lower end. This is accomplished by inclining the pendulumuntil the trough B inclines in a direction opposite to that assumed inthe normal condition represented in the figure. The water thereforepasses from the first trough B into the next trough O, and as thependulum is maintained swinging the water, for similar reasons, passesto the trough B, then to the trough 0, then B and then to 0 &c., to thetop. As a brief period of time is necessarily occupied for water to movefrom one portion to another a greater proportion of the water iselevated, if the motion is made intermittent, by stopping the pendulumat each highest position reached by the pendulum.

It is evident that the invention may be modified without departing fromthe spirit of my invention. For example, the number of series of troughsmay be multiplied either by adding more and more at the top or by addingmore and more at the sides. Further, I do not limit myself to anyparticular kind of engine or machine for operating or communicatingmotion to the pendulum.

Referring particularly to Figs. 2 and 3, it will be noticed that thereare three distinct swinging sets of troughs supported on suspended armsor pendulums 1 2 3. Motion is communicated to the top one, for example,through the lever 4L, and motion is communicated from the pendulum 1 tothe pendulum 2 by the connecting-rod 5 and from the pendulum 2 to thependulum 3 by the connecting-rod 6. The rod 5 has a slotted portion 5,in which is located a pin 7, fastened to the pendulum 1. The other endof the rod 5 is secured to the rocking shaft 9 of the pendulum 2.Likewise the rod 6 has a slotted end 6, in which is located a pin 7,fastened to the pendulum 2. The other end of the rod 6 is rigidlysecured to the rocking shaft 10 of the pendulum 3. In View of thisconstruction motion which is communicated to the handle at istransmitted to all the sets of troughs, so that they swing back andforth. The lower set of troughs of the pendulum 3 is divided into twosubsets 11 and 11. The set 11 is the The set 11 takes water on theopposite stroke, and, finally, the water is fed from the spout 13 intothe next higher set 14, whereby the water is raised to the top of thesaid set, whence it may be emptied into the next higher set 15 at aspout, which is shown on the farther side of the apparatus, except inFig. 3.

I claim as my invention A water-lifting machine consisting of thecombination of a swinging pendulum having a series of troughs in whichthe troughs are placed one above the other, in parallel directions andat a given angle to a horizontal plane, a second series of troughssimilarly arranged, but inclined in an opposite direction at about thesame angle, the troughs of one series communicating by passage-ways attheir ends, with the troughs of the other series, a second set of seriesof troughs located at a higher level, and communicating by a waterway,other similar sets of series of troughs, and connecting-rods between thependulums for communicating motion from the top pendulum to the lowest,the several series of troughs being respectively on different pendulums.

Signed at Victor, in the county of El Paso and State of Colorado, this19th day of October, A. D. 1896.

ALF. J. VANCE. [L. 8.]

l/Vitnessesz JOHN W. HOFF, E. M. JonNsoN.

